Fanciful Story is here!
I am so excited to share this years limited edition ornament with you all. It's been a real challenge this year to get this ornament together. Due to the pandemic, I started several different ornaments on more than one occasion and had to scrap them because I was no longer able to get the materials for them. I finally decided, that since this year is the fifth year of my series, I was going to design something GOLD. My version of five golden rings I guess???
I designed this ornament as a combination of an embroidered book cover, and further study of my favorite embroidered jacket at the V&A in London, England. I wanted to know what that jacket looked like when it was newly made. I wanted to feel how heavy it must have been.... I wanted to feel and manipulate the fabric to see how it moved encrusted with all those gold spangles! So I designed this book cover in the same fashion, with the same embroidery and ratio of gold spangles....and have to say, it is amazing in person.
just.
amazing.
As well...each and every one of the 1260 gold spangles used is attached with an antique opal glass bead. So finally beads are making their way into the ornaments!
Cost wise it is the most expensive of all my ornament kits, but this is absolutely due to the amount of real gold on this piece. You will use nearly 2 full spools of gilt smooth passing, and, like I said, an astronomical amount of gold spangles. The embroidery itself when finished weighs nearly as much as the book that it is covering.
And speaking of that book~ they are marvelous little miniature books~ Each kit will randomly have either The Night Before Christmas, or The Nutcracker.
If you are interested in purchasing an ornament this year, you can find ordering info here
3 comments:
This is so COOL!!!!!!! So Sparkly!! Absolutely GORGEOUS! LY, Mom
Absolutely magnificent! Stunning (as your work always is). I have a question, though. You say it's the same ration of spangles as the original piece. It's hard to see the original piece, but did it have that much gold coverage? That would have made that jacket even more impressive (in weight, value and work involved). I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. Just freaking astounding. I'd love to see it in person. I'm going to be thinking about that jacket for days....
Yes, at some point in its history, the jacket was completely covered in spangles~ the weight of it must have been exceptional. Do read the notes in the museum listing, as covering a jacket completely with spangles so much so the original embroidery was obscured was written about in the period. Due to the value, spangles would be unpicked over time...search Parfilage on my blog here to bring up a post about it
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